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Though it kept rolling in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the trucking industry couldn’t buck the downward trend in stock prices Monday as Wall Street reopened for business.

While last week’s terrorist attacks triggered tremendous short-term dislocations of U.S. freight systems, trucking activity will suffer much more if the events of last week push the broad U.S. economy into a hard recession as many analysts now fear.

The Federal Reserve cut the overnight bank lending rate a half-percentage point to 3% on Monday morning.

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The retail price of diesel fuel rose 3.5 cents per gallon last week to $1.527, the highest average price since May 28, when it hit the year high of $1.529..

As rescue crews sift through rubble in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., U.S. passenger airlines are picking up the pieces of their industry and preparing to face an anticipated slowdown in air travel.

Trucking associations in both the United States and Canada are looking for solutions to delays of several hours or more for truckers attempting to enter the country – delays engendered by heightened security along the U.S. border in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

A poignant ceremony to re-open the New York Stock Exchange gave way to a more than 700-point drop in the Dow Jones index, pushing it below the 9,000 mark for the first time in more than 2 1/2 years.

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FAA Clears Some European Airlines; ATA Kicks Off 'Operation Diesel Watch'; Crude Oil Prices Soar in London; Waste Management Companies Bid for Clean Up; and more...